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  • And for any of the people saying "he changed".

    One of his most recent "philanthropic" ventures was to partner with Nestle (good start) to "modernize and increase yields" of the dairy industries in impoverished countries.

    The two organizations then sold modern (likely non-servicable) equipment and entrenched them in corporate supply chain systems geared towards export and making it much harder to trade locally (not sure how that part worked, but was in what I read).

    For a grand total of........ 1% increased dairy yields.

    Then 3-4 years later they pulled out, leaving heavily indebted farmers without the corporate supply chains and delivery systems they were forced to switch to, and making it very difficult to switch back to the old ways of working, so they can't sell nearly as much locally.

    Who do you think will buy up those farms when the farmers go bankrupt and have to sell ar rock bottom prices.

  • Yes, it doesn't work out of the box. Proton games literally won't launch. You need to run this command (at least on atomic distros):

    flatpak permission-set background background com.valvesoftware.Steam yes

    https://github.com/AeonDesktop/Project/wiki/Troubleshooting#steam-flatpak-opens-but-cant-start-games

    Mangohud also doesn't work without modifications, as well as a couple games having absolutely abysmal framerates like rocket league.

    Gamemode doesn't work AFAIK

    It is a worse experience in general, but works for a lot of people.

  • I am split on this.

    If you allow it, then you get eevblog sort of posts where there are 1000+ comments over 5 years in 50 pages that switch topics so regularly that every 2-5 pages should be entirely seperate posts and reading them because of wanting to find information on the title topic is completely useless.

    On the other hand, sometimes an issue will become stale and someone will comment with an update or solution to a problem and get chastised for "necroing" and sometimes their comment with a solution deleted.

  • There are many many kinds of laws that are fucked in Japan. Court in general is a whole other cultural world from what I hear and however unfair courts are in the west, in Japan they are even less so.

  • Except not on most phones, just a small subset of old phones.

  • Bazzite uses BTRFS, but not snapshots I think.

    Opensuse microOS flavors go all-in on full system snapshots but that means they also have a bad grub encryption unlock interface (instead of Plymouth). I have had some funky things with it like it missing keystrokes and if you get it wrong once, you have to reboot your entire system instead of just retrying.

    Other OS's use home folder snapshots only or something like that?

    The different variants are not quite clear to me.

  • Placebo is a hell of a phenomenon though lol

  • I wished posteo allowed custom domains... They would be perfect then!

  • Hey, something I can maybe help with.

    Flatpak IDEs on the main system are not very useful for development. I got rid of mine entirely. I am developing firmware so it might be a bit different from your case, but what I did in have a single arch distrobox where I could install everything embedded-dev-related that had to work together (JLink, nordic tools, code-oss, etc...) on that. Then a few standalone debugging tools like STLink and Saelae logic2 could be installed to the home folder by default and Code could still find them from the distrobox (but they could be installed in the distrobox also). It doesn't even need to have an init system, but I ran into a few problems like having to manually chmod usb devices to give STLink access. Udev rules are also hit or miss in /etc/udev/rules.d, e.g. the STM udev rules just don't work, but nordic does.

    High storage consumption is likely negligible (or at least nitpicky) since storage is so cheap nowadays. Your SSD doesn't care if it has 15GB or 20GB of system programs, especially when development codebases and SDKs, games, and media will likely make up 90% of space and almost never share libraries even on traditional systems.

  • I wish it was socially acceptable to interest-dump someone and for them to do the same to you.

    Just getting a 5-10 minute lecture deep into a topic that someone is passionate about is fun and educational! Much better than trying to make small talk or talk about the 3 common topics at your workplace (at mine it is local tv, energy spending/taxes, and cars), which is often sports. Then you get to learn about other people's interests too!

  • I peel carrots to give the peels to my dog because it is her favorite.

    I peel pumpkins/squash that aren't roasted, and potatoes if they will be fried (very different texture and they are unhealthy anyway), what other vegetables do people peel normally? I am coming up blank.

  • That only solves maybe one of the listen problems. Whatever instance you have, you still have to get and serve media to other viewers and instances. The only problem that this solves is potentially CSAM spam/moderation.

    Let's say it was a cell phone, it could handle maybe 2 concurrent transcoding streams before stalling out and people running into buffer times (which makes them leave).

    If every person had their own tiny, low powered servers, then you could have max like 5 concurrent transcodes on any instance in all of peertube for old laptop or desktop computers. Assuming an average of people have a 100/30Mbps connection (which is true in much of the world outside of major cities, or even lower), then that would be absolutely maxing out at 10 concurrent viewers if everyone is running AV1 compatible clients (which is not the case) and more like 6 concurrent viewers per video at h.264. Those estimates are at low bitrates also, so low quality, absolutely no slowdown from your ISP, and absolutely no other general home or work-from-home use. In reality it would be closer to 3-6 concurrent viewers per instance (not even per video)

    Still not even counting storage which is massive for anyone that creates more than a couple videos per year.

    My point is just that it is an extremely difficult and costly problem that is not as simple as "more federation" like in text and image-based social media because of the nature of video, the internet, and viral video culture. Remember, federation replicates all viewed and subscribed content on the instance (so the home instance has to serve the data and both instances have to store it)

  • Yep. I have posted on stack overflow exactly 3 times. One time it was marked as duplicate and referenced to something that was not even the same topic. One time I had too much detail and debugging done for the classic knowitalls to come make a smartass remark and was completely ignored. The final time I got one comment, addressed it, and that person was never heard from again lol.

  • Nice! Always good to convert something that is no longer supported.

    For future projects, I would also suggest using the SEEED studio Xiao series https://www.tinytronics.nl/index.php?route=product%2Fsearch&search=seeed+studio+xiao if you don't need a lot of IO, which is often the case with IOT stuff. I use it for everything HomeAssistant related.

    The esp32-c3 version for the cheapest with a nice antenna if you have to put the module near metal (my homemade doorbell uses this)

    The esp32-S3 model for more processing power (my VoiceAssistant satellite uses this)

    Esp32-c6 variant to replace the esp32-c3 for everything that you want to convert to Thread in the future (esphome is starting to have Thread support https://esphome.io/components/openthread/)

    Esp32 board are great, but the xiao series is so tiny that you never have to worry about them not fitting!

  • Just a few thoughts as to why it hasn't taken off:

    Video is multiple orders of magnitude more difficult and expensive to serve than text or even audio.

    • Your server needs a great upload speed which is not achievable for on-site home servers for most people in the world
    • Your server has to have at least one dedicated encoding GPU (no raspberry pis or Intel nucs if you want any meaningful traffic)
    • Your server has to have a ton of storage, especially if you allow 4k content to be uploaded, which while much cheaper than before, is still expensive. Here in the EU, reliable storage is around 300€/12TB for drives, which fills up very fast with 4k videos or if you try to store different resolutions to reduce transcoded loads.
    • Letting random people upload video onto your instance is significantly harder to moderate than text or photos. Like think of the CSAM spam that was on Lemmy when it started in taking many new users...
    • The power usage (and bill) of the server will also be much higher than without peertube because of constant transcoding

    The cost, both financial and server taxation-wise is simply too great for me, and many others to setup a peertube instance.

    Regardless of how easy it is for people to create on peertube, someone has to bear the cost of hosting it. That is cheap-ish for Lemmy or mastodon, but there is a reason YouTube was a loss leader for a long time for google, and many streaming services restrict 4k video.

    That isn't even getting into compensation for the content makers.

  • I wish I could use unattended-upgrade.

    It literally restarts my server even when I disable the option, leaving it hung if the USB boot key isn't in there.

    I had to stop using it, so now I just manually upgrade because that doesn't auto-restart without my permission...

  • Hell, a 12TB WD red Plus in the EU is 300€. $160 for a 14TB is absolute dirt cheap

  • They sell tons of stuff that isn't food.

    Clothes and work & running gear(even Aldi merch once a year), budget electronics and appliances (their toaster ovens are very often used for DIY solder reflow ovens), garden tools and supplies like slug pellets and shears, and even lower quality tools that work fine for ocassional light use.

  • That is the largest overstatement of the year.

    It rivals aliexpress/amazon brands in quality, sure, but it still generally isn't even at the quality of Ryobi, which is a lower-medium tier brand together with Bosch green, much less makita, dewalt, or Bosch blue.

    Though for many non-renovating homeowners just needing the occasional drill work, it works just fine!

  • The Minigame maps in source days were crazy good!

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    Should I or should I not use a VLAN? I have trouble understanding the benefits for home use

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    What is the "proper" way to navigate migration from another service (all photos are already on the server)

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml

    What is with Steam's shading cache updates nowadays?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    How do you guys do sensitive document storage?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    Headless server hardware transcoding without X or Wayland?